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February 2024
Fed Up!
Fed up! Stressed! Tired! Is it really because its February and the winter is sooooo long and...
Read moreJune 2021
Are long working hours killing you?
We all know that stress is a killer, but how do long work hours affect our health? Recent studies have...
Read moreInternet Explorer is finally being put to rest.
Everyone's favourite web browser, Internet Explorer, is finally being retired in June 2020. Internet...
Read moreOctober 2020
AI? Pish posh, Mary Poppins!
Just what's so intelligent about ignoring what makes us human? Re-visiting the idea that the software...
Read moreThe Bitter Invention of Satan
For many of us it’s the first thing we think of when we get up in the morning. Or for others the...
Read morePersonality and your job... Does it matter?
Do you need different personality types within a business? Are certain jobs better for (and done...
Read moreThe internet of things...... going haywire?
Given that we are all going to go out and buy fridges that tell us what goodies we're about to run out...
Read moreFebruary 2020
Money Money Money
The 70's ABBA classic that may not mean anything to future generations. Delving into the world of facial...
Read moreDecember 2019
Bitcoin: Back to Basics
Are you baffled by Bitcoin? Confused by Cardano? Stumped by Stellar? Well to learn the basics of the...
Read moreNovember 2019
We Are Taking Over The World (And By We I Do Not Mean Us)
The We company who brought us We Work don't just provide offices but have branched out into more aspects...
Read moreJuly 2019
Charles Bukowski, Alien Goats, and why you want to shout at the telly!
In today’s world where self-confidence is mistaken for self-awareness the abundance of confidence...
Read moreMay 2019
On having an astonishing face salad and the maintenance of a dusty scraggle
I was on the tube at the first flush of morning yesterday, it’s a great chance to people-watch...
Read moreApril 2019
The Investment Banks' Secret DJs
There is a secret, known only to a few: that the City of London has been penetrated by, and is now suffused...
Read moreAre you cool? Awesome? wicked? Or just sick?
How did “awesome”, a generally positive if somewhat over-used acclamation, lose favour and...
Read moreMarch 2019
Spiders, from Mars? (Or are they just walking across the ceiling only to drop down on your face when you’re half asleep and…. Oh God!)
Put “Spiders” into Wikipedia and the entry reads: “Spiders are air-breathing arthropods...
Read moreWhen you walk into a room and completely forget what you wanted or why your ancestor's brain wasn’t sucked out by a bear!
Breathe easy, It’s not just you! You know when you’ve just got up from the sofa and...
Read moreOpportunity. Sometimes the most wonderful things can happen!
Opportunity, the Mars rover that has been trundling along for over 15 years has finally "died". ...
Read moreJanuary 2019
Entry level AV Technician
We have a great opportunity to get into the Audio Visual Industry for someone who is interested in the...
Read moreThe Borg Queen!
In my last blog I said our mobile phones were "making cyborgs of us all". I've been pondering this quite...
Read moreLondoners, buses, and the inexorable progression of everyday tech....
Coming to work this morning on the train I looked up from my "phone" (why do we still think of them as...
Read moreBack to work blues?
You know all those "Top tips for returning to work" that sprout up every January 2nd?
Read moreDecember 2018
Event Lighting Project Manager
London based lighting hire and event production company specialising in extravagant corporate and fashion...
Read moreDirector of Operations
The Director of Operations is a newly created senior position within a progressive, energetic (and rapidly...
Read moreVenue Production Technician
Enjoying flexing your natural personal communication skills will play a major part in your role, and...
Read moreProject Manager Venues
Do you see yourself working for a Technical Event Production company that is going places, bringing your...
Read moreNovember 2018
Warehouse Tech / Driver
Are you looking for an engaging role within event production and event lighting? Do you have knowledge...
Read moreTattoos - Just musing on Body Art at work
Working in Audio Visual with all the techies & geeks, the fans of SteamPunk & CyberPunk, with...
Read moreSenior Event Technician - Brussels
We are currently working closely with a global events agency with offices in North America, Europe and...
Read moreEvents Lighting Project Manager
London based lighting hire and event production company specialising in extravagant corporate and fashion...
Read moreBusiness Development Manager
North London based creative events company specialising in event management, production, venue finding...
Read moreLive Event Logistics Hire Co-ordinator
Multi award winning event design and technical production company in London are rapidly expanding, adding...
Read moreOctober 2018
Senior AV Technician - £28k - £35k
Our client is looking to expand their AV team - some of their extensive portfolio of sites now needing...
Read moreTechnical Manager AV/VC
Your experience will be highly valued at this rapidly expanding Technology Solutions Company. They...
Read moreJuly 2018
Business & Sales Developer
Business & Sales Developer We are recruiting for a great client, A Technical Production Company...
Read moreContinued learning at work can be fun!
As Adam Uzialko at BusinessNewsDaily.com points out developing technologies may be an answer to the age...
Read moreJune 2018
Audio Visual & Live Event Tech. Glasgow!
We're looking for a Corporate AV & Live Event Tech for Glasgow!
Read moreClient Services Director, Dubai
Would you like to escape 'the old world' and bring your management skills with the events and exhibitions...
Read moreVideo Conference & Audio Visual Technician - Permanent Role
Video Conference & Audio Visual Technician - Permanent Role!
Read moreA new role: Technical Manager for a production company, London
Do you have a really strong background in Sound, Lighting and Video? Are you looking to join a vibrant...
Read moreYvonne Jacobs, Industry favourite!
Yvonne Jacobs - once again back in the Audio Visual and Live Event industry!
Read moreMay 2018
Slicing up your genes - the easy way!
If, like me, you have an interest in genetic, and science generally, you've probably heard of Crispr. ...
Read moreHoliday! (It would be so nice.....)
As Madonna says: "Holiday, celebrate..." Maybe it's too late and you've got it all lined...
Read moreReal Superpowers!
Some people really do have "super" powers - from having a 'perfect' memory, remembering every detail...
Read moreAnd here was me getting all the flack for having sweeteners.......
Well, well, well.... It turns out that all that awful doom-laden talk about taking sweeteners is based...
Read moreA rather fabulous animation about inventors & inventions... I love it!
Kyle O'Brien, on the Drum, gives us Ogilvy's animation shorts celebrating some of the lesser known inventors...
Read moreHow to make algorithms both understandable and funny!
Kevin Slavin gives a really great TED talk on algorithms. Sounds dreary? It's not. He brings...
Read moreDanger, Will Robinson! Flying deliveries and robotic couriers. Oh dear.
Delivery robots. We've been promised that they are coming for a long time. Some of the big...
Read moreArguing better.... don't we all want to be able to 'drop the mic'?
Paul Ratner, from The Big Think, gives us the low-down on how to argue well. It's not necessarily all...
Read moreWhat would you do if.... Looking at everything from a different perspective
Thought experiments are often useful and creative ways of exploring the social and physical world we...
Read moreApril 2018
And you thought Amazon was for Alexa to get you a new phone!
For the science and space geeks amongst us, we are used to hearing about Elon Musk and SpaceX, the rockets,...
Read moreThis one really does scrape the sky!
Tom Ravenscroft at Dezeen introduces us to the worlds "Third Tallest Building". Being built in...
Read moreIt's not just driverless cars!
A fascinating riff on how we will travel in 20 years time from Wired. Trying to predict the...
Read moreIs being silly the way forward?
Do we have to be stern and serious the whole time? Need to keep our top buttons firmly done up...
Read moreData download.... what DO they all know about us?
Amanda Zantal-Weiner on Hubspot did what, perhaps, many of us are too scared, or too lazy to do: she...
Read moreStorytelling and the rise of video
I've been finding it interesting that people have very different perspectives on what content any marketing...
Read moreCalm down, it's just an interview!
What works for some people may not work for others, but advice on how to interview well is always worth...
Read moreTo eat or not to eat.....
It's been a staple of Science Fiction since the early days, with Captain Kirk first using a food "synthesizer"...
Read moreWhat does it mean to be authentic?
With 'trust' being uppermost in many people's minds when engaging online - be it on the social media...
Read moreMarch 2018
Does length matter? (It's VIDEO again!).
Advertisers are spending more & more online, trying to get their video seen by as many (or as "targeted")...
Read morePutting it together! IKEA construction made simple... maybe...
Now, I'm not the most "handy" of people and couldn't put up a shelf to save my life but, if I'm completely...
Read moreDo you need to change to be high achieving
I'm always rather suspicious of these "change your life in 3 easy steps" and the "You too can earn a...
Read moreTurns out everyone, Old Dog or New, should learn new tricks!
New discoveries about our brain - still the most complex structure we've so far come across in the known...
Read moreJust something lovely from dezeen!
Dezeen magazine gives us a taste of Antony McCall's Solid Light Works Exhibition. Beautiful.
Read moreWhat is Blockchain?
Blockchain is one of those things, one of those concepts, that keeps coming up in relation to all manner...
Read moreSchadenfreude...... When it goes horribly wrong!
What happens when you make a mistake, when it all goes horribly wrong? It's all very well wanting...
Read moreYour time on Social Media. Curse? Blessing? Both....
There seems to be a new study every week into Social Media: how does it affects Kids? How much time do...
Read moreWomen & tech. Why the gender divide?
It's interesting when you look at the statistics from studies in the UK on how and why girls choose the...
Read moreSimple, effective website design.
A really good, succinct article from Adobe giving some excellent advice on web design and making the...
Read moreFebruary 2018
How can everyone enjoy their job more?
A some musings on what it takes to find work more fulfilling, more rewarding - and advice for both the...
Read moreYour interview technique... Need improvement?
An interesting article by Lou Adler through Inc. about what he calls "The Sherlock Holmes" technique. ...
Read moreThe spirit of new technologies needs to find us willing.
It's interesting, to me at least, that many posts and blogs aimed at or for Marketing, Advertising and...
Read moreFacebook changes, quality and spam!
The whys and wherefores of Facebook's recent changes have altered the way posts appear in anyone's feed,...
Read moreVideo, video, video!
You'll have seen it a lot recently, the clarion call for everyone in 2018: Video, video, video!...
Read moreHi, I'm your Digital Overlord!
Some “experts” are saying, again, that we need to “Jazz Up the Job Title”, that...
Read moreHow to communicate with anyone, at any time ......
How To Communicate With Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere About Anything..... For introverts and extroverts...
Read moreIs The Future Video?
“A minute of video is worth 1.8 million words”. And there are an abundance of other facts...
Read moreSpectacular change, like Winter, really may be coming!
We are constantly bombarded with articles, messages and TV programs - in fact from everywhere - telling...
Read moreHello Tweeter, are you real?
How do you know who is real on Instagram or Facebook? Is ANYBODY real on Twitter? Does it matter...
Read moreYour LinkedIn profile
Some interesting tips and information: everyone has their own little irritants or questions about how...
Read moreSocial Media & Small Business. Don't panic Mr. Mainwaring!
We keep being told that "The algorithm is changing"; that things will get worse, or better; and that...
Read moreA thing of beauty
For our Architect friends and everyone else..... David Adjaye's building, The Smithsonian National...
Read moreGoogle's Questions & Answers
Joy Hawkins at Search Engine Land has a few questions of her own: Why aren't more businesses asking questions...
Read moreManaging your online reputation
Chris Silver Smith, at Marketing Land talks through the idea of managing a company's reputation. ...
Read moreNot just for millennials!
Maria Garrido at The Drum says: Brand marketing’s obsession with millennials over...
Read moreNew Job - Events Production - Account Manager
We are excited to announce a new opportunity as a Business Development Manager for a vibrant, global...
Read moreBack from the future!
Dave Davies from Search Engine Land has a great short article looking back on 2018 from the perspective...
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